From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 20 23:50:03 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA3A716A4CF for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:50:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6949243D46 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:50:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j2KNo2hp030913; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:50:02 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:50:02 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Super Daemon Message-ID: <20050320235002.GB5243@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTPD and Internet Explorer 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:50:04 -0000 In the last episode (Mar 20), Super Daemon said: > I've been curious about this for a while. I have a freebsd 5.3 > Release Server running FTPD. Users running MS WIndows can connect to > it just find as long as they type in ftp://user@ipaddress. However, > when they connect as ftp://ipaddress, the server thinks they are > trying to connect anonymously. But i've noticed that this doesn't > happen when running PROFTPD from the ports. Can anyone explain why > this is??? Is there a way to connect as ftp://ipaddress and still get > prompted for username and password under internet explorer 6.0??? You have to disable anonymous logins (add the 'ftp' user to to /etc/ftpusers). If MSIE is able to log in anonymously when given a plain ftp://host URL, it will not display a login box (since it doesn't need to). ProFTPD probably has anonymous logins disabled by default. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com